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Commonweal’s Juvenile Justice Program Wins Award January 13, 2015 In December, our Juvenile Justice Program was the recipient of a 2-year grant from Battery Powered to continue important work advocating for prison reform for juveniles. Find out more about what this program has been doing.

Fukushima and Fish: What Are Scientists Saying Now? December 3, 2014 It’s now more than three and a half years since the nuclear disaster in Japan, and concerns regarding the impacts continue. What are scientists and doctors saying now about the risk for the California coast?

Fu Ni Myo Do: Mysterious Path of Not Two November 3, 2014 The New School at Commonweal hosted Zen Priest and Calligrapher Shodo Harada Roshi in September as part of their End-of-Life Conversations series. Michael Lerner talked with the Roshi about death, the condition of fear, and the preciousness of life.

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All winterthe blue heronslept among the horses.I do not knowthe customs of herons,do not knowif the solitary habitis their way,or if he listened forsome missing one—not knowing eventhat was what he did—in the blowing sounds in the dark.I know thathope is the hardestlove we carry.He sleptwith his long neckfolded, like a letterput away.- Jane Hirshfield ...

Language As Lathe: A Conversation on Poetry and Prose
~Co-presented with @[50433857247:274:Point Reyes Books]~
Join TNS Host Eric Karpeles for a conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield. Jane’s poems, described as “radiant and passionate” in The New York Times Book Review and “among the pantheon of the modern masters of simplicity” in the Washington Post, have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, Poetry, Harper’s, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, and eight editions of The Best American Poetry. Her new book, The Beauty (Knopf, 2015), appears along with a new book of essays, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015).

Jane Hirshfield

April 4, 2015, 2:00pm

The New School at Commonweal

Language As Lathe: A Conversation on Poetry and Prose
~Co-presented with Point Reyes Books~
Join TNS Host Eric Karpeles for a conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield. Jane’s poems, described as “radiant and passionate” in The New York Times Book Review and “among the pantheon of the modern masters of simplicity” in the Washington Post, have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, Poetry, Harper’s, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, and eight editions of The Best American Poetry. Her new book, The Beauty (Knopf, 2015), appears along with a new book of essays, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015).

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